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  • Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the solar system, ... about 1 percent as strong as that of the Earth. Surface temperatures on ...
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  • minimum kinetic energy remains in the system as seen by all observers ... in which it is measured. An isolated system (no energy can enter or leave ...
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  • work was an attempt to create a unified system for understanding the human ... Posidonius measured the earth’s circumference by observing the position ...
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  • instrument for finding directions on the earth. It consists of a magnetized ... with a delicate construction, is used by observing variations of the needle ...
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  • Mineralogy is an Earth science focused around the chemistry, crystal ... substances were comprised of water, air, earth, and fire, with the properties ...
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  • concerned with the engineering behavior of earth materials. Geotechnical engineering ... foundations. Retaining structures include earth-filled dams and retaining ...
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  • all celestial bodies revolve around the Earth. Galileo published a full ... universe, in which everything circled around the Earth. ...
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  • Just as most effects of gravity can be made to vanish by observing ... the room is resting on the surface of the Earth and the objects are being ...
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  • before him used a simpler sexagesimal system dividing a circle into 60 ... collection of texts nowadays called "System B" (sometimes attributed ...
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  • life. As the existence of life beyond Earth is currently uncertain, planetary ... The idea that planets beyond Earth might host life is an ancient one ...
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  • liquids, and gases covering most of the Earth's land surface and that ... The earth's soil in general is sometimes referred to as comprising ...
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  • levels of the organization of life on earth and on the interrelations ... The outer layer of the planet Earth can be divided into several compartments: ...
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  • the ultraviolet radiation that reaches the Earth's surface is UVA. Some ... health effects on the skin, eye, and immune system. title = Health ...
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  • element of the rest of the sacramental system and the Church itself, or ... and did not teach that Jews should stop observing the Mosaic law (Acts 21:24). ...
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  • such as the atmosphere, the ocean, or the earth" (Glossary in US Patent ... * Lambrecht, Astrid. "Observing mechanical dissipation in the ...
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  • Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in our solar system and is ... Like the Earth, Mars has a rocky surface and polar ice caps. Its rotational ...
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  • Leon Festinger in the mid-1950s, after observing the counterintuitive persistence ... and more people can be persuaded that the system of belief is correct, then ...
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  • George Washington was among the guests observing the take off. ... 1793. Although a balloon has no propulsion system, a degree of directional ...
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  • #039;s laws of planetary motion from this system, he was the first to show ... for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish ...
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  • planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. After Earth's ... A terrestrial planet, it is sometimes called Earth's "sister ...
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  • the first platform capable of observing the Sun in the extreme ... the largest explosions in our solar system. Furthermore, the surface ...
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  • encountered rotating reference frame is the Earth. Freely moving objects on ... velocity of the particle in the rotating system, and Ω is the angular velocity ...
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  • His philosophical system, particularly as it is presented in the Syntagma ... so dispel doubts about the motion of the Earth), and carried out numerous ...
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  • importance than beauty. In referring to the Earth as a "Mansion-Globe ... Kant, in 1764, made an attempt to record his thoughts on the observing ...
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  • The Global Positioning System (GPS) is currently the only fully functional ... Timing And Ranging Global Positioning System). The satellite constellation ...
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  • the heavens by a united humanity. God, observing the arrogance of humanity ... 1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2 And ...
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  • that the use of this classification system was made before 433 B.C.E ... from Han carvings and reliefs, that the system of representing asterisms ...
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  • add to the delight one can experience for observing the prairie dog. ... with grass to insulate them, and the earth excavated from the burrow ...
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  • A galaxy is a massive, gravitationally bound system consisting of ... and various interstellar clouds. The Solar System is located in the Milky Way ...
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  • the 'science of life') is a system of traditional medicine native ... history, Ayurveda remains an influential system of medicine in South Asia ...
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  • 18 minutes to traverse the diameter of Earth's orbit. Unfortunately ... Thomas Young did his famous experiment observing diffraction from two closely ...
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  • and is notable for describing an ancient system of cosmology, philosophy ... 8¦¦¦ (☷)000Field (坤 kūn)earth (地)southwest ===Hexagram Lookup ...
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  • by its own gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun, which is the ... and many other properties of a star by observing its spectrum, luminosity ...
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  • are the largest known to have occurred on Earth within that timeframe, producing ... we can study development of the planet Earth through its various stages ...
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  • taking care of each other and the earth that is their home. ... lie in the geology revolution, when the Earth was revealed to be much older ...
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  • and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth. (Taipei: Caves Books Ltd ... zone in the radiation belt surrounding the earth. This zone, known as the ...
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  • Röntgen, a German scientist, began observing and further documenting ... plate, X-ray film in a cassette, and rare earth screens. ...
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  • there are the four fundamental elements of earth, water, fire, and air, from ... #039;s La Systeme de la Nature (The System of Nature), in France in ...
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  • and measuring the magnetic field of the earth. Fermi's interest in ... experiments with uranium, narrowly missed observing nuclear fission. At that ...
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  • of identity. New Zealanders respect the earth and the sea and as a national ... for Britain by right of discovery, by observing that Māori were so sparse ...
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  • of the difficulties inherent in precisely observing and measuring rapid decomposition ... silica, or most commonly diatomaceous earth, which act as stabilizers ...
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  • Chichen Itza, Tikal, and Uxmal. Through observing numerous consistent elements ... planes: the underworld, the sky, and the earth. The Mayan Underworld was ...
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  • (or occasionally, a cumulus cloud) and the Earth's surface. Tornadoes ... spawned from the same large-scale storm system. If there is no break in ...
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  • caves, and piles of stones, as well as earth spirits, the tutelary gods ... of Confucianism. Yet, its ethical system is still the bedrock of contemporary ...
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  • caused by exposure to radioactivity while observing A-bomb tests in the Pacific ... With this contribution of von Neumann, the axiomatic system of the ...
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  • the structure of a compound by observing its fragmentation, quantifying ... very specific mass analyzer and detection system, as is the case with AMS ...
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  • For instance: 'Ye are the salt of the earth.' I would not insist ... with secular life, while strictly observing the Jewish law in the home ...
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  • examined the problem of having a logical system of philosophy that connected ... world into his nascent epistemological system. Significantly, in the title ...
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  • by SadaShiva and Sri Krs'na. His system of meditation, he said, is ... #maintenance of self-observing attitude. Alberto Perez-De-Albeniz and ...
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  • Permian-Triassic extinction event was the Earth's most severe extinction ... reflect history. They fit the pattern of observing that the leg of Reptile ...
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